Parking and Traffic Safety

To help make your drive as smooth as possible, I’d like to summarize parking and traffic conditions. Student parking is available in Lots 1, 2A, 4, 5, 6, Power Arts, Valley Road and Camp Veritans. Reserved parking is designated for faculty, staff and visitors in Lots 2B, 3, 8 and other locations so marked with signs or access control gates or yellow lined parking stalls.

Camp Veritans, located at Gate 1 off of Pompton Road is available for parking. Parking in this area is restricted to daylight hours only.

Mills Drive, the pedestrian way surrounded by Overlook, Hillside, Century and High Mountain residence halls is closed to vehicular traffic, other than service vehicles and other authorized vehicles. Other vehicles operating or parked in this area are subject to summons and towing. During move-in and at the end of the semester, the University may choose to provide vehicles with access. At all other times, it is closed to general traffic.

Resident Students must park in Lots 2A and 6. Resident Students residing in Pioneer and Heritage may park in designated parking areas near those buildings or in Lots 1 and 2A. All vehicles parking overnight without a “Resident” window permit or in other parking lots will be towed. If you have a guest with a vehicle you must register the guest with Residence Life and receive a “Temporary” overnight parking permit to avoid the vehicle being ticketed and towed. Faculty or Staff requiring overnight parking must contact University Police.

Only faculty and staff are permitted to park in Lot 2B, 3 and 8. Students parking in these areas subject themselves to fines, vehicle towing and disciplinary action.

Only vehicles displaying handicapped permits are permitted to park in Lot 7. The University anticipates that handicap accessible parking will be relocated from that area when construction commences on Science Hall.

To avoid delays, please plan accordingly, follow the directions of traffic officers and signage on the campus, obey all of the traffic laws, be courteous to other drivers and be safe.

Mid week and midday classes are the most popular and consequently put the greatest demand on parking. We urge you to use mass transit or car pool and to park your vehicles at Valley Road or Power Art and utilize the campus shuttle rather than waste time, fuel and cause congestion hunting for prime spaces. Traffic Control Officers and Campus Police will interrupt those “grazing” for parking spaces as this creates unsafe conditions. Summonses will be issued for violators.

Please become familiar with the location of the various lots. Campus activity varies tremendously from day to day and week to week. Consequently, individuals should not anticipate or expect to park in the lot nearest to your building destination or in the same lot every time. The absence of a parking space in your regular lot or the one nearest your destination does not justify violating University parking regulations.

I urge you to familiarize yourself with the information in the parking regulations as well as the Emergency Information materials available on this website.